Cher apologises for George Floyd tweet claiming she could have helped if she was there
5 Apr, 2021 03:09 AM
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Cher hit the Tweet button, copped an earful, doubled down, then listened to her mate Karen. Photo / Cher, Instagram
Cher hit the Tweet button, copped an earful, doubled down, then listened to her mate Karen. Photo / Cher, Instagram
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By: Bella Fowler
Music icon Cher has been forced to apologise after tweeting that she could have helped George Floyd, prompting followers to accuse her of having a white saviour complex .
The 74-year-old singer came under fire after she tweeted her thoughts following the start of the trial of ex-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who planted his knee on Floyd s neck for nine minutes and 29 seconds in May last year.
Erdogan Accuses Former Admirals Of Political Coup By Raziye Akkoc and Fulya Ozerkan in Istanbul
04/05/21 AT 12:25 PM
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday accused dozens of retired admirals of eyeing a political coup by attacking his plans for a canal linking the Black Sea to the Mediterranean.
Police have detained 10 of the former navy commanders and ordered four others to turn themselves in after they published an open letter critical of the proposed Canal Istanbul over the weekend.
Turkey s post-Ottoman history is littered with putsches by a military that views itself as the last guarantor of secularism in the mostly Muslim country.
Russia Putin: Kremlin accuses US of meddling in election
Russia Putin: Kremlin accuses US of meddling in electionby wpjljron
Monday, January 29th, 2018.Russia Putin: Kremlin accuses US of meddling in electionImage copyright EPA Image caption Vladimir Putin seems certain to win in March after an opposition leader was barred from standing An expected US report that could sanction Kremlin-linked oligarchs is an attempt to influence Russia’s March presidential election, Moscow has said. The US treasury report is expected to detail the closeness of senior Russian […]
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Vladimir Putin seems certain to win in March after an opposition leader was barred from standing
Simultaneous Blazes at Two Myanmar Military-Owned Malls Raise Suspicions of Regime Plot
Ruby Mart in downtown Yangon burns on Thursday morning.
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By The Irrawaddy 1 April 2021
Two military-owned shopping malls in Yangon one downtown and another in the northern part of the city burned down early on Thursday morning. Photos that went viral online show the charred remains of Ruby Mart in the city center, burned beyond recognition. The Gandamar Wholesale center in Mayangone Township was seriously damaged in a separate blaze that was still smoldering after sunrise.
The charred Ruby Mart building on Thursday morning.
So far, the causes of the fires remain unknown, as does the extent of the financial losses.
Ex-Homeland official accuses Biden of using illegal immigrants to increase voter base
Ken Cuccinelli said the Biden administration is letting illegal immigrants into the country because they view them as future voters.
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Updated: March 31, 2021 - 11:33pm
Ken Cuccinelli, a former top Homeland Security official under President Donald Trump, is accusing the Biden administration of intentionally refusing to enforce border laws in hopes that illegal immigrants can one day become Democratic voters. At the same time this is their border policy to invite hundreds of thousands of illegal aliens into the country they re also putting through two amnesty bills through the House of Representatives, and they re putting a voting bill through that will register folks to vote before they re even citizens and before they can legally vote, Cuccinelli said during an interview on